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Social Media for the Legal Professional

By | | Educational, Ethics, Marketing, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology | 1 Comment

This past weekend I presented a CLE session for the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys (NCAWA) annual meeting on the topic of social media for legal professionals. Anyone involved in virtual law practice needs to understand social media and how it can be used to market a virtual law office, but also about how […] ...READ MORE

Call for Comments – ABA Ethics 20/20 Commission Reviews Cloud Computing and Client Confidentiality

By | | ABA, Cloud Computing, Confidentiality, Delivering Legal Services Online, Ethics, SaaS, Technology | 3 Comments

This afternoon the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 sent an email through the listserv announcing a public hearing in mid-October in Chicago.  The Commission is looking for comments on two topics: 1) “Client Confidentiality and Lawyers’ Use of Technology” and 2)  “Lawyers’ Use of Internet Based Client Development Tools.”  I’ve uploaded the first of these […] ...READ MORE

Virtual Law Pratice at ILTA

By | | Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | 1 Comment

This past week’s ILTA conference was full of great insight about disruptive technologies, virtual law practice and the changes that are expected in practice management as a result.  I wasn’t able to attend the conference in person, but I managed to collect materials and information presented at key sessions.  Here’s what I picked up without the […] ...READ MORE

Update on Proposed NC Ethics Opinion on Cloud Computing

By | | Cloud Computing, Ethics, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology | Leave a Comment

I was notified this past week that the NC Bar Ethics Committee met at the end of July and decided to send the proposed ethics opinion, 2010 FEO 7 “Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property” to a subcommittee for further study.  They will be providing an update on […] ...READ MORE

Ethics Considerations: Guest Post on Mass. LOMAP Blog

By | | Clickwrap Agreements, Cloud Computing, Confidentiality, Delivering Legal Services Online, Educational, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, Residency Requirements, SaaS, Technology, Unbundling - Limited Scope, UPL, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

The final guest post in my three-part series for the Massachusett’s Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP) has posted on the blog.  This final post covers ethics considerations in virtual law practice including both the attorney’s responsibility to thoroughly research their software provider as well as best practices for the ethical management of a virtual […] ...READ MORE

Virtual Lawyering Promoted at ABA Annual

By | | ABA, Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, Educational, eLawyering, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

There was a lot of coverage related to virtual law practice and the delivery of online legal services at this year’s ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.  Compared with even a year ago, this topic is fully on the radar of attorneys and bar officials concerned with virtual law practice for both solo and small firms.  However, this […] ...READ MORE

Revising Ethics Rules to Facilitate Virtual Law Practice

By | | ABA, Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, Educational, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, Residency Requirements, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | 2 Comments

I’m on a panel discussion this morning at the ABA Annual Meeting about the impact of technology and globalization on ethics for the 21st century lawyer.  One of the questions that I expect will come up will be about the need for ethics rules to be revised to reflect the changes in practice management that […] ...READ MORE

Virtual Lawyering In the News & Upcoming Presentations

By | | ABA, Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, Educational, eLawyering, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

Online posts and podcast: Jim Calloway and Sharon Nelson have published a new podcast on The Digital Edge entitled “Virtual Lawyering Goes Mainstream.”  Calloway and Nelson discuss ways that virtual lawyering is starting to take off within the legal profession.  Over at the Slaw.ca blog, Sharon Nelson and John Simek has a post entitled “The Virtual Lawyer […] ...READ MORE

Secure Client Portals to Deliver Legal Services Online

By | | Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | 3 Comments

The delivery of legal services online depends on the use of a secure client portal where the attorney and client can interact. This is the key feature of a virtual law practice and what distinguishes it from other online legal services and law firms that claim to be “virtual” by using unencrypted email. I’ve noticed […] ...READ MORE

Online Legal Services for “Digital Natives”

By | | Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | 1 Comment

I’m contributing to a public policy paper regarding the risks and benefits to the public from the use of cloud computing in law practice management.   The process has encouraged me to think in-depth about how the general public reaches out to the legal profession for help.  At the same time, I just finished reading Born […] ...READ MORE
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